Oh bugger, I haven't said something stupid again have I?

Jolly Good Show!

HRH has been at it again, flying the flag for good old British bigotry. Is this a man or a cartoon? It’s impossible to caricature such a cretinous arsewipe, it would have the similar, lame effect as the banal pointlessness of Austin Powers taking the piss out of James Bond, himself a preposterous stereotype. The Duke of Edinburgh, however, is a real human being. At least in as far as he physically exists, although the life he lives admittedly can’t really be conceived as “real” in any meaningful sense. Those old farts among us old enough to remember still hark back to Phil’s golden age of racist abuse from the legendary “slitty-eyed” mid 80s China period, but still, this is pretty vintage stuff. So “Eastern women just sit around smoking pipes and eating sweets all day”. Well, that’s pretty sweeping. What, when you think about it, constitutes “Eastern”? Could include not only the Arabs (presumably he was thinking of them, since the remark was directed at a belly dancing troupe) but also the Chinese, Japanese, Indonesians, Indians, Persians, Russians… Greeks? No, maybe not them. Ah well, no harm done, according to the good old BBC (thanks for putting ‘insult’ in inverted commas, auntie) the women involved felt honoured to have been vilified by this useless, blue-blooded old shitbag, and judging by their names they weren’t even proper wogs anyway, mere sheep-shagging Welsh.

So that’s all right then!